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Aircraft Archive: Bombardier
“Beware of Geeks Bearing Formulas”
With the market experiencing a virtually unprecedented fall in traffic, gauging the extent of a decline and its duration requires an appreciation of new market dynamics rather than an extrapolation of past trends. Warren Buffett, the high profile investor, stated in his March 2009 address to investors that they should…

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March 16, 2009
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Freighter Rentals Experience Significant Fall
Data concerning the state of the airfreight market makes for grim reading. Traditionally, the freight market has been the first to suffer in a downturn and the first to recover. While the first months of the year have historically been lean, the year on year figures demonstrate the depth of…

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March 16, 2009
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Widebody Values Continue to Fall
Widebodies may be faring better than narrowbodies but there can be no escaping the fact that values have fallen. The contraction of operations and the deferral of new orders means that there are now a significant number of widebodies in the parking lot. The demand for any those seeking to…

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March 16, 2009
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Values & Rentals Face Downward Pressures
The previous exceptional demand for the B767-300ER has waned such that the much expected decline in values has commenced in earnest to the extent that during the course of the last six months, values have fallen by some fifteen percent. With production now stretching back for more than 20 years…

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March 16, 2009
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Aircraft Asset Assessment
The B767-300ER Market Presence. The B767-300ER presented the operating leasing community with the ideal tool with which to enter the widebody operating lease arena. Throughout the 1990s the B767-300ER enjoyed considerable success but then fell victim to the usual problem of lengthy production and market saturation. Past success was achieved…

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March 16, 2009
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Rising Number of Parked Aircraft Will Delay Value Recovery
As the number of aircraft in storage rises, the recovery in values will be delayed even if such aircraft are not being actively marketed. Aircraft values are impacted by two statistics – the number and relative proportion of aircraft being actively marketed and those parked or stored. For nearly a…

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March 16, 2009
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The End is Here
With the majority of Chapter 2 aircraft now worth less than $1 million and indeed, much less, there is little to commend the various types in this category. For the majority of Chapter 2 aircraft, any value mostly resides with the operator. Seeking to sell the aircraft for cash was…

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March 2, 2009
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ERJ145 Values Face Challenging Times
The ERJ145 has faced considerable challenges over the course of the last eighteen months and unfortunately the market conditions continue to be adverse such that values have continued to fall despite the decline in the price of fuel. The hike in the price of fuel caused significant problems for the…

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March 2, 2009
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